Blog 2.1
1. What is the last that anyone knows about journalist Jamal Khashoggi?
The 59-year-old veteran journalist was last seen on October 2 walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. He was there to obtain a document verifying his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancée.
2. What does Turkey say happened? What does Saudi Arabia say happened?
Turkish officials have said they have “concrete” evidence that Khashoggi never left the building and was murdered there; some have even put forth gruesome theories of how his body may have been dismembered and smuggled out.
The Saudi government, however, says it had nothing to do with his disappearance and maintains that he left through a back entrance, though it has provided no evidence to support that.
3. Why would the Saudi Arabian government have motive to murder him?
“We think the Saudi authorities need to provide a credible account with evidence and testimonies to explain what happened to him,” Mansour said. “We have far more questions than answers.”
4. How has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to change Saudi Arabia?
Allowing women to drive
5. How did Khashoggi come to work for The Washington Post instead of the Saudi paper Al Watan?
Khashoggi became a frequent contributor to publications like the Washington Post’s global opinions section and continued to criticize the Saudi government from afar. In a column published last September titled “Saudi Arabia wasn’t always this repressive. Now it’s unbearable,” he wrote of how his hope that the crown prince would be a reform-minded voice has now given way to fear of repression.
6. Why did he visit the Saudi Consulate in Turkey?
He was there to obtain a document verifying his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancée.
7. The US is an ally of both. Why don't they get along?
During an interview with Fox and Friends that aired on Thursday, President Trump reaffirmed that US-Saudi relations were “excellent,” but also said that it was important to find out the facts about the journalist’s fate.
8. How is the president responding to the issue? How are Senators responding?
“We’re probably getting closer than you might think, but I have to find out what happened,” he said. The president added that the US was working with Turkish and Saudi investigators in Istanbul.
9. Why doesn't the president want to cause too much trouble with Saudi Arabia?
The 59-year-old veteran journalist was last seen on October 2 walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. He was there to obtain a document verifying his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancée.
2. What does Turkey say happened? What does Saudi Arabia say happened?
Turkish officials have said they have “concrete” evidence that Khashoggi never left the building and was murdered there; some have even put forth gruesome theories of how his body may have been dismembered and smuggled out.
The Saudi government, however, says it had nothing to do with his disappearance and maintains that he left through a back entrance, though it has provided no evidence to support that.
3. Why would the Saudi Arabian government have motive to murder him?
“We think the Saudi authorities need to provide a credible account with evidence and testimonies to explain what happened to him,” Mansour said. “We have far more questions than answers.”
4. How has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to change Saudi Arabia?
Allowing women to drive
5. How did Khashoggi come to work for The Washington Post instead of the Saudi paper Al Watan?
Khashoggi became a frequent contributor to publications like the Washington Post’s global opinions section and continued to criticize the Saudi government from afar. In a column published last September titled “Saudi Arabia wasn’t always this repressive. Now it’s unbearable,” he wrote of how his hope that the crown prince would be a reform-minded voice has now given way to fear of repression.
6. Why did he visit the Saudi Consulate in Turkey?
He was there to obtain a document verifying his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancée.
7. The US is an ally of both. Why don't they get along?
During an interview with Fox and Friends that aired on Thursday, President Trump reaffirmed that US-Saudi relations were “excellent,” but also said that it was important to find out the facts about the journalist’s fate.
8. How is the president responding to the issue? How are Senators responding?
“We’re probably getting closer than you might think, but I have to find out what happened,” he said. The president added that the US was working with Turkish and Saudi investigators in Istanbul.
9. Why doesn't the president want to cause too much trouble with Saudi Arabia?
he didn’t want to risk losing a lucrative weapons sale to Saudi Arabia in the context of a conversation about the journalist’s disappearance.
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